{"id":389,"date":"2013-08-17T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aadev22.local\/?post_type=aa_program&#038;p=389"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:38:16","slug":"technical-debt","status":"publish","type":"aa_initiative","link":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/resources\/initiatives\/technical-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Debt Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Technical Debt Initiative is now closed<\/h2>\n<p>Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/agile101\/the-agile-manifesto\/\">the Agile Manifesto<\/a>, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. It\u2019s OK to borrow against the future, as long as you pay it off.<\/p>\n<p>Since Cunningham first used this metaphor, which he called technical debt, it has gained momentum. However, there is a lack of guidance and good practices available to leverage the metaphor in concrete ways to help developers, teams, and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It is our mission to help those in the agile community build technically healthy products. We do this by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>providing executives with tools to understand the financial, productivity, morale, risk, and other impacts of technical debt and to guide investments to improve the technical health of their product portfolio.<\/li>\n<li>providing managers with guidance to incorporate technical health into product and portfolio planning.<\/li>\n<li>providing teams with guidance to measure technical debt and improve the technical health of the products they build.<\/li>\n<li>identifying the root causes of technical debt at multiple levels of organizations, from individual developers to the board room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are a manager or team leader, you can start getting help with your technical debt challenges by following this link to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/technical-debt-quick-start-guide-for-managers\/\">Quick Start Guide For Managers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an executive, you can get help in addressing executive-level concerns about technical debt by following this link to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/technical-debt-quick-start-guide-for-executives\/\">Quick Start Guide For Executives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technical Debt Initiative is now closed Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of\u00a0the Agile Manifesto, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. It\u2019s OK to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6000331,"featured_media":2308,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[906],"tags":[713,626],"class_list":["post-389","aa_initiative","type-aa_initiative","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-past","tag-technical-debt"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_initiative\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_initiative"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aa_initiative"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6000331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_initiative\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}